Calvert County
Calvert Marine Museum Raffles Dream Seats for 2026 Series: Shelley Burns of Calvert County has secured four front-row seats to every performance in the 2026 Waterside Music Series, courtesy of a raffle organized by the Calvert Marine Museum. The announcement came Nov. 8, 2025, highlighting Burns as the sole winner drawn from entries submitted through the museum’s annual Dream Seat Raffle…. Read More
Northern HS Marching Band Sweeps USBands Titles: Northern High School’s marching band tied for first place at the 2025 USBands Maryland State Championships on Nov. 1 in Towson and captured the national title four days later in Allentown, Pennsylvania, with a score of 91.0 that edged out competitors from four states… Read More
County Relocates Key Service Boxes: The Calvert County Department of Public Works, General Services Division, has relocated document drop boxes for three key departments from 205 Main St. at Courthouse Square to the Calvert County Administration Building at 150 Main St. … Read More
Charles County
Cold Case Renewed: 45 Years After Deborah Brooks’ Killing; Deborah Ann Brooks, a 17-year-old from Northeast Washington, D.C., vanished on a routine errand to a drugstore on November 13, 1980. Her body turned up the next afternoon in a wooded patch off Sharpersville Road in Charles County, beaten and stabbed in what investigators quickly classified as a homicide…Read More
Waldorf Cold Case: Tips Sought in 2008 Cordova Killing: Charles County Sheriff’s Office detectives continue investigating the 2008 homicide of Daniel Argueta Cordova, a 24-year-old Waldorf resident found dead in a commercial parking lot… Read More
Young Gets 18 Years in High School Carjacking Case: Charles County Circuit Court Judge William R. Greer Jr. sentenced Martino Marcus Young, 21, of Washington, D.C., to 18 years in prison on October 31, 2025, for his role in an armed assault and vehicle theft at St. Charles High School the previous year… Read More
St. Mary’s County
Rockfish Schools Thrive in Upper Potomac, Patuxent: Southern Maryland anglers found consistent action for striped bass, known locally as rockfish, in the upper reaches of the Potomac River and the Patuxent River during the week ending November 12, 2025… Read More
Reforms Target Gaps in County Volunteer Fire Response: The St. Mary’s County Fire Chiefs Council issued an update this week on operational changes underway across the county’s volunteer fire services, following the November 6, 2025, release of a comprehensive after-action report into the June 27, 2023, house fire that claimed the life of firefighter Brice Clayton Trossbach… Read More
Hawker Takes Helm of Nursing at MedStar St. Mary’s: Captain (Ret.) Jeremy J. Hawker, MSN, RN, NC, USN, assumed the role of vice president of Patient Care Services and chief nursing officer at MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital on Nov. 3, 2025… Read More
State of Maryland/Regional
First meeting of redistricting panel yields little drama, less information: The first meeting of the Governor’s Redistricting Advisory Commission on Tuesday was short and to the point — if the point was that there are still a lot of questions surrounding the commission’s work and not much time to answer them… Read More
Lawmakers cautioned on use of reserves to solve nearly $1.5 billion deficit: The General Assembly’s top budget analyst cautioned lawmakers against draining the state’s cash reserves to offset a nearly $1.5 billion deficit that has emerged in the coming fiscal year… Read More
GOP counters Democrats’ push for redistricting with call for ‘fair and principled’ process: Republicans in the General Assembly said they will propose legislation to limit partisan redistricting, by creating a new independent redistricting commission and by codifying part of a 2022 court ruling that called for compact districts with commonsense boundaries… Read More
